Shakespeare Romeo and Juliet Online Course Description
This online course examines the life of Shakespeare and his tragic play Romeo and Juliet. Romeo and Juliet continues to be one of the world’s most famous and alluded to love stories. This course guides students through a reading of the play and a basic look at the author’s life. Students are required to use technology and online applications and tools to integrate what they have learned and discovered into discussions, individual assignments, and a collaborative group project. This course will last four (4) weeks. This is a short time to read and create quite a bit of material, but with the help of technology, it is quite attainable.
Course Objectives: Common Core Standards
RL.9-10.2. Determine a theme or central idea of a text and analyze in detail its development over the course of the text, including how it emerges and is shaped and refined by specific details; provide an objective summary of the text.
By reading the text and answering Act questions, students will experience the development of the plot of the play and of the characters.
Students will recognize and identify themes throughout the play.
Analyze how complex characters (e.g., those with multiple or conflicting motivations) develop over the course of a text, interact with other characters, and advance the plot or develop the theme.
Students will identify and analyze through journals and guided Act questions character development, attitudes, and motivations.
Through acquired knowledge of types of speeches in drama, students will infer character attitudes and feelings towards other characters and events in the play.
RL.9-10.6. Analyze a particular point of view or cultural experience reflected in a work of literature from outside the United States, drawing on a wide reading of world literature.
Through guided reading and questions, students will read and comprehend William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet.
Based on study of the author's background and history, and historical context of the play, students will understand and apply concepts and cultural values to make judgements of character actions.
RL.9-10.9. Analyze how an author draws on and transforms source material in a specific work (e.g., how Shakespeare treats a theme or topic from Ovid or the Bible or how a later author draws on a play by Shakespeare).
Students will use knowledge of the concept of allusion to compare themes from Shakespeare to other modern works of art (music).
Course Tasks
Respond to two group discussion questions posed in the discussion section of the classroom wiki and reply to two classmate postings per discussion question.
Complete the questions for each act of the play by the due dates, post to GoogleDocs and send via email to the instructor (tappd@district140.org).
Complete and submit via email and/or GoogleDocs two journal entries based on assigned prompts.
Participate in and complete the group project utilizing Skype and GoogleDocs: Creation of a modern epilogue of the play.
Instructor: Mr. Dave Tapp
Eureka High School
5-23-2012
Email: tappd@district140.orgPhone: 309-467-2361 ext 6661
Shakespeare
Romeo and Juliet
Online
Course Description
This online course examines the life of Shakespeare and his tragic play Romeo and Juliet. Romeo and Juliet continues to be one of the world’s most famous and alluded to love stories. This course guides students through a reading of the play and a basic look at the author’s life. Students are required to use technology and online applications and tools to integrate what they have learned and discovered into discussions, individual assignments, and a collaborative group project. This course will last four (4) weeks. This is a short time to read and create quite a bit of material, but with the help of technology, it is quite attainable.
Course Objectives: Common Core Standards
Course Tasks
Tools required